BUFFALO, New York, May 5, 2009 – – The Voice-Over Entrance Exam, a free e-book for newcomers to the voice over industry, was released on the web today, (www.voiceoverentranceexam.com). The free e-book was written by Peter K. O’Connell, a professional voice talent since 1982 who serves as president of audio’connell voice over talent and is owner of Voice Over Workshop.

The e-book promises to help prospective voice over talents take a hard look at what they really need to think about if they want to work full time or even part time as a professional voice talent. The Voice-Over Entrance Exam covers topics like getting a professional talent assessment, handling rejection, how to seek professional training and how to manage the business of voice over.

“I have witnessed first hand the pitfalls of the voiceover novice who jumps headfirst into the industry – totally unprepared – only to meet with complete indifference from potential customers and the voice-over community,” O’Connell said. “This e-book gives them the right advice to consider before they spend a nickel on equipment or marketing and since the book is free, so is the advice,” O’Connell noted.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent is a worldwide, English language-based voice talent organization. The company also operates International Voice Talents, a company featuring professional foreign language male and female voice actors. audio’connell Voice-Over Talent and International Voice Talents provide voice talent for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, documentaries, broadcast voice imaging, audio books, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH). Industries served by the two companies include advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

Mr. O’Connell also owns Voice Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent world-wide.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, International Voice Talents and Voice Over Workshop are all a part of O’Connell Communications, LLC.
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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
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Company Name Pronunciation:
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Company Name Spelling:
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BUFFALO, New York, April 3, 2009 – – To promote its two new hit comedies, Head Case and Party Down, Starz Entertainment secured the voiceover talents of Peter K. O’Connell for their most recent national radio commercial. O’Connell is President of audio’connell Voice-Over Talent and has been a professional voice talent for 27 years.

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Head Case stars Alexandra Wentworth as Dr. Elizabeth Goode a brash and judgmental therapist who uses her own unconventional methods of therapy to treat the elite of the entertainment, sports and music industries who often appear as themselves on the show. Party Down is about a group of struggling dreamers (employed by the L.A. catering company “Party Down”) who are stuck working for tips while waiting for their big break in Hollywood. Starz currently airs new episodes of these two original series, back to back, on Friday nights on its national cable channel.

Starz Entertainment is a premium movie provider operating in the United States. Starz Entertainment offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 17.7 million and 31.7 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment provides quality movies and original, compelling content, viewed through our premium and commercial-free networks, or as a broadband download.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent is a worldwide, English language-based voice talent organization. The company also operates International Voice Talents, a company featuring professional foreign language male and female voice actors. audio’connell Voice-Over Talent and International Voice Talents provide voice talent for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, documentaries, broadcast voice imaging, audio books, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH). Industries served by the two companies include advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

Mr. O’Connell also owns Voice-Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent world-wide.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, International Voice Talents and Voice Over Workshop are all a part of O’Connell Companies.

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Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice-Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

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BUFFALO, New York, March 27, 2009 – – Voice over talent and president of audio’connell Voice-Over Talent Peter K. O’Connell was tapped by two Western New York State professional associations for live announcing duties in March. O’Connell served as announcer for the Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing Executives’ 2009 Elite Sales and Marketing Awards Gala and was a co-host of the 2009 BETA Awards program for InfoTech Niagara with WKBW-TV anchor Elizabeth Carey.

The Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing Executives is a professional association that was established in Buffalo in 1942 by area sales and marketing leaders with the goal to improve the knowledge, standards, conduct and network of sales and marketing practitioners. InfoTech Niagara is “the” trade association of Western New York’s information technology industry.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent is a worldwide, English language-based voice talent organization. The company also operates International Voice Talents, a company featuring professional foreign language male and female voice actors. audio’connell Voice-Over Talent and International Voice Talents provide voice talent for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, documentaries, broadcast voice imaging, audio books, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH). Industries served by the two companies include advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

Mr. O’Connell also owns Voice Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent world-wide.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, International Voice Talents and Voice Over Workshop are all a part of O’Connell Companies.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice-Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

O’Connell Voice-Over Resume:
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BUFFALO, New York, January 16, 2009 – – Peter K. O’Connell, president of audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, was elected to serve a two year term on the board of directors of Media Communications Association-International (MCA-I), it was announced today. As part of his role on the association’s board, O’Connell will also serve as chairman of the association’s Membership Committee.

Peter K. O’Connell

“Over my twenty-five plus years in the communication industry, the technological avalanche I have witnessed over the past five to seven years has been amazing. It’s one of the reasons I joined MCA-I. The portability, the speed and the accessibility of the technology driving personal and professional communication today across so many media channels means that individuals and companies will need to access the brain power of our MCA-I membership now more than ever,” Peter K. O’Connell said

With nearly 800 members world-wide, MCA-I supports professional communicators who work in film, video, the Internet as well as other electronic media and who communicate through broadcast and non-broadcast delivery channels. The professional association is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin and with 29 active chapters celebrated it 40th anniversary in 2008. The association’s web address is www.mca-i.org.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent is a worldwide, English language-based voice talent organization. The company also operates International Voice Talents, a company featuring professional foreign language male and female voice actors. audio’connell Voice-Over Talent and International Voice Talents provide voice talent for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, documentaries, broadcast voice imaging, audio books, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH). Industries served by the two companies include advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

Mr. O’Connell also owns Voice-Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent world-wide.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, International Voice Talents and Voice Over Workshop are all a part of O’Connell Companies.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice-Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

O’Connell Voice-Over Resume:
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ROCHESTER, New York, December 12, 2008 – – Retail competition is fierce during the holiday shopping season prompting Victor, New York-based Eastview Mall to create a radio and television advertising campaign featuring one of audio’connell Voice Over Talent’s female voice artists.

Encouraging shoppers to “Have an Eastview Day”, the campaign’s spots feature audio’connell voice talent Val promoting a plethora of shopping and dining options for holiday consumers.

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Located near the Finger Lakes, Eastview Mall is a super-regional shopping center located just off the New York State Thruway and serves Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York. There are more than 180 specialty stores, six sit-down restaurants and a Regal Cinema within Eastview Mall.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent is a worldwide, English language-based voice talent organization. The company also operates International Voice Talents, a company featuring professional foreign language male and female voice actors. It also owns Voice Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent world-wide.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent and International Voice Talents provide voice talent for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, documentaries, broadcast voice imaging, audio books, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH). Industries served by the two companies include advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, International Voice Talents and Voice Over Workshop are all a part of O’Connell Companies.
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NOTES TO EDITORS

Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice-Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

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BUFFALO, New York, November 11, 2008 – – When El Centro, California-based Southwest Dental Group needed to create a new, multi-spot radio advertising campaign, they chose audio’connell Voice-Over Talent to brighten their on air image.

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Produced and voiced by audio’connell Voice-Over Talent president Peter K. O’Connell and featuring a number of the voice over company’s premiere female voice talents, the spots promote the professional dental team’s complete range of state-of-the-art services while ensuring patients feel comfortable and at ease within Southwest Dental Group’s beautifully appointed dental facility.

A professional voice over talent and audio producer for over 25 years, Peter K. O’Connell is president of audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, a worldwide, English language-based voice talent organization. Mr. O’Connell also operates International Voice Talents, a company featuring professional foreign language male and female voice actors.

Both companies provide voice talent for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, documentaries, broadcast voice imaging, audio books, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH). Industries served by the two companies include advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.

Mr. O’Connell also owns Voice-Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.

audio’connell Voice-Over Talent, International Voice Talents and Voice Over Workshop are all a part of O’Connell Companies.
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NOTES TO EDITORS

Company Media Releases ON LINE:
http://www.audioconnell.com/media

Company Name Pronunciation:
au·dio·o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-oh-kah-nel) or au·di-o’·con·nell (awe-de-oh-kah-nel)

Company Name Spelling:
Use lower case letters- audio’connell or audio’connell Voice-Over Talent

Company Web:
http://www.audioconnell.com

Company Blog:
http://www.voxmarketising.com

O’Connell Voice-Over Resume:
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